2025 Summer Program at the Center for Canon Expansion and Change
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, June 1–7, 2025.
CCEC Summer Program
The Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) seeks applications for participants in its 3rd annual Summer Program, now funded by a $500,000 grant. Participants will take part in a week-long collaborative workshop, in which they learn about figures in an expanded canon of early modern philosophy (such as Anton Wilhelm Amo, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) and cutting-edge research on them; discuss inclusive, student-centered, and equitable pedagogy (with 2 sessions dedicated to teaching a predominantly white subject in predominantly white institutions); and collaboratively craft their own early modern course syllabus. After the workshop, participants and guides will meet regularly and continue to communicate as their courses (and future versions of it) are implemented. Participants will also receive an award from CCEC attesting to their experience with canon expansion and inclusive teaching.
DETAILS
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The Summer program is scheduled to take place from June 1 to June 7, 2025, at the University of Minnesota.
Participants will take part in a week-long collaborative workshop, in which they learn about figures in an expanded canon of early modern philosophy (such as Anton Wilhelm Amo, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) and cutting-edge research on them; discuss inclusive, student-centered, and equitable pedagogy (with two sessions dedicated to teaching a predominantly white subject in predominantly white institutions); and collaboratively craft their own early modern course syllabus.
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The Center for Canon Expansion and Change will offer $400 toward toward airfare and will provide coverage of accommodation.
Faculty members with institutional funding to participate should communicate this in the application.
Funding information will be shared with the selected participants.
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For additional information or if you have any questions about the program, ccec@umn.edu or contact our RA Nada Mohamed (moha1725@umn.edu)
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CCEC summer program is funded by a $500,000 grant: https://www.mellon.org/news/mellon-foundation-awards-14m-for-humanities-grounded-research
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1- Statement of interest (1 page outlining their interest in the program and how it connects with their research and/or teaching)
2- curriculum vitae.
The statement of interest and curriculum vitae should be submitted as one .pdf file.
We welcome applications from advanced graduate students and faculty members (contingent or permanent). We especially encourage applications from individuals of groups underrepresented in (Anglo-American) philosophy.
Faculty members with institutional funding to participate should communicate this in the application.
Applications should be submitted by March 15th, 2025. Applicants will be notified of admissions decisions by March 31, 2025.
The Application for summer 2025 is now closed.
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CCEC Summer Program 2025 Agenda
CCEC Summer Program 2025 at a Glance
CCEC 2025 In Numbers
CCEC 2025 Impact
Participants’ Testimonies
“I thought it was a fantastic summer program. I learned a lot from guest experts and colleagues, and I am already implementing some changes in my daily projects. You're doing such amazing work.”
“The visit to the Archie Givens Archive was amazing, and the experts on Early Modern Philosophy panels. The debates with and within the groups were also excellent. Thank you for this great experience during the Summer Program.“
‘‘The sessions were extremely interesting. The size of the group (not too big, not too small) worked very well: everyone had the chance to speak and we could learn a lot from others' experiences.”
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CCEC Summer Program 2025 Moments
CCEC Summer 2025 Organizing Team
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Jessica Gordon Roth (Co-founder)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, U of M
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Dwight K. Lewis Jr (Co-founder)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, U of M
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Aleks Zarnitsyn (Administrative support)
Graduate Program Coordinator, U of M
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Nada Mohamed (Summer RA)
Philosophy PhD Candidate, U of M
CCEC 2025 Early Modern Experts
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Andrew Janiak
(Duke University)
Andrew Janiak is Professor of Philosophy and Bass Fellow at Duke University, where he co-directs Project Vox. His most recent book is The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the making of modern philosophy (Oxford, 2024).
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Christia Mercer
(Columbia University)
Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, general editor ofOxford Philosophical Concepts, co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, a book series devoted to making philosophy more inclusive, and creator and director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia. As a part-time activist, she created and oversees Just Ideas, an educational program in Brooklyn’s high security Metropolitan Detention Center, and publishes regularly on the need to make higher education more widely available and on justice reform
CCEC 2025 Pedagogy Experts
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Jason Swartwood
(Saint Paul College)
Jason Swartwood is an instructor of Philosophy at Saint Paul College. He has published work on practical wisdom, philosophical methodology, practical ethics, and pedagogy in philosophy. He is the author, with Ian Stoner, of Doing Practical Ethics (OUP 2021), which applies a skills-focused, practice-based method for teaching ethics.
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Eddie O'Byrn
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Dr. eddie o’byrn is an assistant professor of African American Studies at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After completing a Philosophy Ph.D in 2019 at Penn State, Dr. o'byrn worked at Carleton College teaching philosophy and africana studies before transitioning to an interdisciplinary department. Their work has appeared in journals including Hypatia, Sartre Studies International, and the Critical Philosophy of Race journal. Currently, Dr. o'byrn working on a book project tentatively titled - Existence Precedes Enslavement.
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Angela Carter
(University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
As a McNair scholar, Angela M. Carter became a first-generation college graduate in 2009 when she earned a BA in English from Truman State University. Dr. Carter completed her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Angela is currently co-leading a Mellon-funded initiative to establish a Critical Disability Studies program at the UMN, as well as co-leading a new grassroots organization, named AmplifyMN: A Disability Justice Collective in the community.
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Jeanine Weekes Schroer
(University of Minnesota Duluth)
Dr. Schroer is a philosopher of race and feminist theory and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UMD in the Department of Geography & Philosophy. Her teaching and research concern the ethics and politics of social oppression and its remedies, including, the metaphysics of race and racism; feminist ethics and social theory; and empirical and experimental philosophical approaches to racism, sexism, and ethics. She co-edited the first philosophical volume on Microaggression -- Microagressions and Philosophy (with Lauren Freeman), as well as special issues of Hypatia (on the ethics and politics of epistemic practice) and Mississippi Quarterly (on mass incarceration). Schroer has won University of Minnesota’s Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Award, as well as the Horace T. Morse Award for Undergraduate Education. Schroer is also committed to support her community through volunteer work with the Junior League of Duluth, Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA), and Black Liberation Lab (an organization dedicated to supporting Black folk of Duluth in struggle for self-definition, rich and meaningful lives, and transformative healing from white supremacy).
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Michael Bennett McNulty
(University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
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Ian Stoner
(Saint Paul College)
CCEC 2025 Remote Experts
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Allauren Samantha Forbes
(McMaster University)
I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. I am also faculty in Gender and Social Justice. My research is at the intersection of feminist philosophy and early modern philosophy. I focus on socio-political relations like custom, friendship, and marriage as a means of epistemic, moral, and political transformation in the works of early modern women philosophers.
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Tyra Lennie
(McMaster University)
Tyra Lennie is a doctoral candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Part of her research focuses on the writings of early modern women philosophers including Mary Astell, Margaret Cavendish, and Lucrezia Marinella. Tyra in interested in the important interpretive work of uncovering insights from understudied philosophers but also aims to show how these works can be repurposed for contemporary means.
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Iziah C Topete
(Boston College)
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Kylie Shahar
(Auburn University)
CCEC 2025 Summer Program Participants